Totem Middle School

Admin, teachers, support and secretarial staff are top notch here! Secretarial staff are super welcoming and down to earth. I've had 2 kids at Totem and both excelled there.

Totem is a great school and I am currently a student here. Yes, this school does have bullies but every school will have them you can't protect them from it. Administration, teachers, and staff often assure students that bullying is taken very seriously at Totem and encourage us to be an upstander and not a bystander by letting a trusted teacher or staff member know. Teachers at totem often are a big help. As a student, I ask you to be patient with teachers. I understand they can be really annoying sometimes (trust me I have to see them 5 days a week) but they do try their best to make sure my fellow acquaintances and I have a great education and are ready for high school. I may have been uncivil in the past but I look forward to trying my best and trying to understand where my classmates and teachers are coming from when I get offended or angry. I truly recommend checking out Totem for your child to attend Totem. Who knows maybe I will see them around and become their friend!

My son was transfer there in the middle of the year from MMS which is as bad as this one, but this one it was truly an eye opening for me as parent of how bad the public school system is, there’s drugs, vape, gangs, bullying and everything bad you can think of as a parent. We cannot just blame the teachers or the staff because kids are the reflection of what they see at home so we as a parents have the duty to teach them what’s wrong and what’s right, also morals and principles and basic decency as humans which we apparently are lacking off now a days, so the trash that you see at that school is the reflection of broken homes and lack of parental control, the school is just there to teach math, social studies etc not to raise your children that’s your responsibility as parent, but as the school staff goes they just ignore my complaints and evidence of drugs at school send to my son at his cellphone also gang signs I took him out and homeschool him for the rest of the year now he will be attending a Christian private school because public school system is unbearable!

When I came to this school in 6th grade, I was looking forward to meeting new students and teachers. Instead, I was constantly bullied, ridiculed, and my self-esteem became almost nonexistent. The teachers never helped me, and either failed me without discussing it or passed me without making sure I was actually understanding what they were teaching. Overall, the school is like a disgusting prison full of ignorance and hatred.

NO longer MJHS but NOW Totem... I highly recommend doing the MCEP route at Totem. If you are looking for Parent involvement and access to your teachers this is the place to be. To address some of the previous concerns from years back. The teachers spend a great deal of time with each child that has the willingness to learn. And for those kids that don't want to be educated the teachers do try their best to push them. The parents are able to come in at anytime, if you do not get the response you need, ask again because someone there will care enough to find an answer. So that addresses the next issue, yes, of course there will be teachers that maybe shouldn't be there, this is true for ANY school. I found that as parents we are able to change that by being there and supportive, working with teachers. Plenty of life skills activities and clubs. TV3, Robotics, Leadership and ASB, jazzband and many more. Administrative leadership is lacking, there is a current overall and an anticipation of great changes in that area. Lastly kids love to be there. They have an active PTSA and they ensure activities which include many. If your child wants options and you want involvement than go here